Tuesday, October 14, 2014

NBC Chief Medical Correspondent Violates Ebola Quarantine Rule And Risks Spreading It To American Citizens For A Dinner

Does NBC's Nancy Snyderman think she is better than everyone else and health safety rules don't apply to her?

NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman violated her 21-day Ebola quarantine by making
a secret run to a New Jersey restaurant

Several people say they spotted Snyderman last week in the
back seat of her Mercedes outside the Peasant Grill near Princeton
University. New Jersey officials have investigated
and determined Snyderman was indeed in the car, and someone from the NBC crew
-- also under quarantine -- went inside the restaurant to pick up food.

A third member of her crew -- also under quarantine --
stayed inside the car with Snyderman, who was wearing shades and had her hair
in a ponytail.

The lapse on the part of Snyderman and her crew was enough
for the New Jersey Health Dept. to turn the voluntary 21-day quarantine into a
mandatory order.

NBC News finally broke its silence on Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s
quarantine violation today on its evening newscast — but only to read a
prepared statement from its chief medical correspondent, who appears to be
unclear as to the whole “quarantine” thing.

At the tail end of the newscast’s lead segment about the
nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital stricken with Ebola after coming
into contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, anchor Brian Williams noted “our chief
medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman has been in the news herself these past few
days.” Saying “we” spoke to Snyderman earlier today, Williams then read a
prepared statement from her. “While under voluntary quarantine guidelines which
called for our team to avoid public contact for 21 days, members of our group
violated those guidelines and understand that our quarantine is now mandatory
until 21 days have passed,” Snyderman said —
forgetting to mention that she’s the one sighted by Princeton locals
double-parked outside a local eatery late last week.

“We remain healthy and our temperatures are normal,”
Snyderman continued in her statement, explaining that “as a health professional
I know that we have no symptoms and pose no risk to the public,” but not
explaining what prompted her to violate the voluntary quarantine agreement with
health officials to make a take-out food run. She did, however, say she is “deeply sorry for the concerns
this episode caused.”

Other networks, however, had a field day today with Nancy
Snyderman and Her Mandatory Quarantine story — a state of involuntary
stay-at-homedness to which she’s been sent by the New Jersey Department of
Health.

CNN’s media navel lint gazer Brian Stelter noted that, even
though every member of Snyderman’s crew is asymptomatic, the quarantine busting
“goes to her credibility as the chief medical correspondent at the network.”
CNN’s legal analyst Paul Callan observed that Snyderman faces 60 days in the
slammer if she violates this mandatory quarantine.